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MindShiftLabhotel field notebook

Ref. MS-AFFRevised 19 October 2026

Commission notes

Lab memo, outbound buttons This site contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you follow a link and make a booking/purchase or download, at no extra cost to you. MSL ref. A-1

Who pays for this notebook, plus each interest a careful reader ought to weigh.

Referral tags

Each “Check availability” link leads to a hotel's official site, possibly with a referral tag attached. Reserve after clicking and a partner might send us a fee; what you pay stays identical.

Commission funds the notebook

Those fees finance the site. We never pretend to earn nothing, nor do we disguise which buttons might pay.

Where the publisher stands

Full disclosure first: Northfield Park Associates LLC, our publisher, operates a casino venue in Northfield, Ohio. It has no guest rooms, so it has no place in a hotel list and is left out. Ownership of the ten hotels lies with others. Only MGM Grand Detroit breaks that independence. It answers to MGM Resorts International, which is also our publisher's parent group, so its card is tagged “Sister property (same parent group)”. Editors placed all ten, and the publisher keeps a commercial interest in the region.

Out of commission's reach

Fees cannot move a hotel up or down, edit a card's facts, or soften its warnings on charges and age limits. Inclusion is not for sale.

How outbound buttons are coded

Hotel buttons launch a separate tab and carry rel=“sponsored noopener”. Reservation platforms and online gambling services receive no links from this notebook.

Questions

Ask about any of this via contact@mindshiftlab.org.

Storage switches

Flip the optional categories on or off. Every footer carries a link back to this panel.

Necessary

Remembers this very decision. Cannot be disabled.

Analytics

Tallies, in aggregate, which notebook entries get opened.

Advertising / affiliate

Allows a referral network to recognise that a reservation began with one of our buttons.